Editing Bochum (section)

==Society and culture==

===Leisure and entertainment===
Bochum is a cultural centre of the Ruhr region. There is a municipal theatre, the [[Schauspielhaus Bochum]], and about 20 smaller theatres and stages. The musical ''[[Starlight Express#Bochum, Germany|Starlight Express]]'', which opened in 1988, is the longest-running musical in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.starlight-express-musical.de/index.php?id=599 |title=STARLIGHT EXPRESS zählt 12 Millionen Besucher! |language=de |date=2008-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107085853/http://www.starlight-express-musical.de/index.php?id=599 |archive-date=2011-01-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Bermudadreieck====
The [[Bermudadreieck]] (Bermuda Triangle), in the city center of Bochum, functions as the town's nightlife hub. Around sixty different bars and restaurants are located there, serving multicultural cuisine such as Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Spanish and German gastronomic specialties. Close to the Bermudadreieck is the [[Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr]], opened in 2016.

====Annual events====
* ''Jumble Sale'' – on the third Saturday of the month, in front of city hall
* April/May: ''Maiabendfest'' – local festival, hundreds of years old
* May: Steam Festival (every other year [even or odd?])
* June events:
::''Rubissimo'', Ruhr University's summer festival
:: ''Kemnade International''
:: ''Extraschicht'' – Night of Industrial Heritage (many locations all over the Ruhr area)
* June/July: ''VfL for Fun'' – summer festival for Bochum's football (soccer) team, VfL Bochum 1848
* July: ''Bochum Total'' (Music Festival) – starts on the first weekend after school lets out
* July or August: ''Bochum kulinarisch'' – culinary treats from various cuisines, held the last weekend of summer vacation
* August: ''Bochumer Musiksommer'', Bochum's Summer of Music
* September: ''Open Flair'' – international cabaret and street theatre
* October: ''Oktobermarkt'' – October Market
* October/November: ''Bochumer Bachtage'' – music of composer [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]
* October/November: ''Ruhrgebiets-Antiquariatstag'' – used and antique book sale
* November: Children's and Teenagers' Theatre
* December: ''Weihnachtsmarkt'' – Christmas Market – month-long open air market spread over the heart of downtown Bochum, includes performance stages

===Museums===
[[File:Bergbaumuseum Bochum Blaue Stunde 2014.jpg|thumb|[[German Mining Museum|Bergbaumuseum Bochum]]]]

* The [[German Mining Museum]] is a museum about mining technology, complete with pithead tower.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eiland |first=Murray |date=2001 |title=Germany's Museum of Ancient Mining |url=https://www.academia.edu/9454988 |journal=Rock and Gem |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=56–59 |via=academia.edu}}</ref>
* ''[[Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum|Railway Museum]]'' and ''Station Dahlhausen'' in the borough of [[Dahlhausen]]. Dr.-C.-Otto-Straße 191
* Zeiss Planetarium
* At the city's border with [[Herne, Germany|Herne]]-(Röhlinghausen), is the former mine ''Zeche Hannover'' with the Malakow Tower and engine hall. There is a steam-powered winding engine, which is operated at events.
* ''Zeche Knirps'' ("Small Boy Mine") located on the ground of Mine Hannover. It gives children the opportunity to experience the processes in a mine.
* Museum of local history ''Helf's Farm'', Address: In den Höfen 37
* ''Farmhouse Museum'' located on the grounds of moated Kemnade Castle
* ''Museum of historic medical tools'' in the Malokos-Tower of former Mine Julius-Philipp from 1875. Address: Malakowturm, Markstraße 258a, 44799 Bochum
* ''Telefonmuseum'', Karl-Lange-Str. 17
* ''Kunstmuseum Bochum'', Kortumstraße 147, 44787 Bochum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kunstmuseumbochum.de |title=Kunstmuseum Bochum |website=Kunstmuseumbochum.de |access-date=2018-08-27}}</ref>

===Art galleries===
[[File:Villa Marckhoff.jpg|thumb|Museum of Art]]
* '''Museum of Art''':<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kunstmuseumbochum.de/|title=Kunstmuseum Bochum|website=Kunstmuseumbochum.de|access-date=11 June 2022}}</ref> The collection's focus is central and eastern European avant garde art, German expressionism, surrealism and [[outsider art]]. Kortumstraße 147, Bochum
* '''Ruhr University art collection''':<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rub.de/kusa|title=KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DER RUHR UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM · ANTIKE KUNST|author=Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Kunstsammlungen Antike Kunst}}</ref> Modern art meets the classical. Marble and bronze portraits of Greek and Roman emperors, collection of antique Greek vases from the 9th to 4th century, B.C. Universitätsstraße 150, Bochum
* '''Schlieker House''':<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schlieker-haus.de/|title=Schlieker Haus|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref> In the former apartment and studio of German painter [[Hans-Jürgen Schlieker]] (1924–2004); changing exhibitions. Paracelsusweg 16, 44801 Bochum
* '''Situation Kunst''':<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://situation-kunst.de/situation-kunst|title=Situation Kunst -|website=Situation-kunst.de|access-date=11 June 2022}}</ref> (Situation Art) Located at "Haus Weitmar" park. Indoor permanent exhibition with works by Gianni Colombo, [[Dan Flavin]], Gotthard Graupner, [[Norbert Kricke]], [[Lee Ufan]], [[François Morellet]], Maria Nordman, [[David Rabinowitch]], [[Arnulf Rainer]], Dirk Reinartz, [[Ad Reinhardt]], [[Robert Ryman]], [[Richard Serra]], Jan J. Schoonhoven; also the Africa and Asia Room. Nevelstraße 29c, 44795 Bochum
* '''Musical Instrument Collection, Hans and Hede Grumbt''': Large collection of musical instruments, also the clarinet collection of Johan van Kalker. An der Kemnade 10, 45527 Hattingen
* '''Ostasiatika Collection Ehrich''': Kurt Ehrich's east Asian collection of Japanese ''netsuke'', belt buckles, a display of the seven "lucky gods" and other additional objects. An der Kemnade 10, 45527 Hattingen, 
* '''ER MindArts''': Contemporary Art online Gallery was established in Bochum in 2014. www.ermindarts.com

===Public art===
[[File:Bochum 070217 035 00.jpg|thumb|"Terminal" by sculptor [[Richard Serra]]]]
[[File:Else Hirsch stolperstein on sidewalk in Bochum.jpg|thumb|Stolperstein for [[Else Hirsch]] on pavement in Bochum]]
* Richard Serra's sculpture, "Terminal" is located in the town centre, near the central station. It consists of four 12-metre (over 39 feet) tall steel plates.
* Ulrich Rückriem's sculpture, "Ohne Titel" (titled "Untitled"), in front of the Kunstmuseum Bochum (Museum of Art).
* Memorial of the herdsman at Massenberg-Boulevard: Memorial for "the good old times", when Bochum was a farmers town. The herdsmans of the town guided until 1870 the cattle of the citizens to the "Vöde", a grassland outside the town limits, a part of it is today the municipal park. Local legends say it is "the last herdsman Fritz Kortebusch". But he died 1866, nevertheless he done this job for a long time. 
* Engelbert statue in the front of the Propsteikirche. In former times it was a fountain with statue at the Kortumstrasse. It is for memory of Earl Engelbert III, who founded the so-called Maiabendfest. It is often assumed that the statue shows his grandfather Engelbert II, who granted extended market rights to Bochum in 1321.
* Jobsiade-fountain at Husemann-Square. Shown is a scene of the examination of Hieronymus Jobs, the main character of the "Jobsiade", a comical poem of the poet Carl Armold Kortum.
* "The envolvement of the City", sculpture of {{Interlanguage link|Karl-Henning Seemann|de}} at Schützenbahn street.
* Collection of sculptures inside the municipal park.
* The bell in front of the city hall serves as a reminder of the improvement of steel-casting in Bochum. The bell was built in 1867 for the Paris World's Fair.
* [[Stolpersteine]] (literally, "stumbling stones") are small, cobblestone-sized, brass [[commemorative plaques]] which are set in sidewalks [[List of cities by country that have Stolpersteine|all over Europe]], marking the homes or work places of Jews and others who were arrested and murdered during the Nazi era. There are 38 stolpersteine in Bochum.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bochum/Stolpersteine – GenWiki|url=https://wiki.genealogy.net/Bochum/Stolpersteine|access-date=2023-01-01|website=wiki.genealogy.net}}</ref>
* Cenotaph for the victims of the mine disaster at "Vereinigte Präsident" in 1936 at the graveyard in Bochum-Hamme. The sculpture was created by Wilhelm Wulff. Strict guidelines for artwork were in effect during the Nazi dictatorship, yet the sculpture follows only a few of them. The inscription also avoids typical Nazi phraseology.

=== Music ===
Founded in 1919, Bochum's orchestra, the [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/ Bochumer Symphoniker], has developed over the course of its history into one of the most important concert orchestras in western Germany. Since October 28, 2016, the [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/musikforum/ Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr] has been a permanent venue. [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/orchester/der-generalmusikdirektor/ Tung-Chieh Chuang] has been General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr since the 2021/2022 season. The [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/orchester/der-philharmonische-chor-bochum/ Bochum Philharmonic Choir] gives about four to five concerts a year and usually performs together with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. In one of the venues, the [https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Audimax-Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum--3590.htm Audimax of the Ruhr University Bochum], there is also one of the most modern organs from the [[Klais Orgelbau]] with 82 registers.

The free rock festival [https://ruhr.amazingcapitals.com/things-to-do/events/bochm-total/ Bochum Total] has been taking place in Bochum city center since 1986. With 900,000 spectators, it is now one of the largest music events in Europe.

Since the summer of 1995, the [http://www.kunstwerkstattamhellweg.de/aktuelles/ Kunstwerkstatt] <Art Workshop> am Hellweg, a former carpenter's workshop, has hosted a wide variety of concerts all year round, from medieval music to baroque music, from Bach to jazz and boogie-woogie. In this informal setting, music fans have the opportunity not only to “sit in the front row”, but also to come into direct contact with the artists. Often artists also play here who can be heard in the [[Carnegie Hall]], in the [[Concertgebouw, Amsterdam|Concertgebouw]], in the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] or in the Great Hall of the [[Moscow Conservatory|Tchaikovsky Conservatory]]. Again and again. The initiators, Dr. Reinhard Cebulla and his wife Anna, received the [https://www.bochum.de/Ehrenplakette-der-Stadt-Bochum Badge of Honor from the city of Bochum] in 2013 and the [http://www.wattenscheider-hbv.de/zeitschr/pdf/2014-06-2.pdf Wattenscheid St. Gertrudis Prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628212736/http://www.wattenscheider-hbv.de/zeitschr/pdf/2014-06-2.pdf |date=2023-06-28 }} in 2014.

===Sports===
* The [[Association football|football]] club [[VfL Bochum]] played in the first Division from 1971 to 1992, and from 1992 to 2010 was alternating almost every year between first and second Division, but mostly first. From 2010 to 2021 it played in the second Division ([[2. Bundesliga]]) before being promoted back to the first Division for the 2021–2022 season.
* [[VfL AstroStars Bochum]] – professional basketball team. Home arena is the Rundsporthalle.<ref>[https://www.waz.de/sport/lokalsport/bochum/schmerzgrenze-bochum-verliert-spieler-innerhalb-der-pro-a-id238795277.html "Wären an die Schmerzgrenze gegangen": Bochum verliert Spieler innerhalb der Pro A] Philipp Ziser ([[Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung]]), 26 June 2023. Accessed 30 June 2023.{{in lang|de}}</ref>
* [[Sparkassen Giro Bochum]] – annual road bike race.